2 hail, 1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 10, 12:50 PM MST, 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 250 PM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 .DISCUSSION... STRONG EARLY SPRING STORM CIRCULATION CENTER IN NRN NEW MEXICO. VORT MAX INDICATED FROM WRN TX PNHDL INTO FAR SWRN CO. AMPLE MOISTURE DRAWN NORTHWARD AHEAD OF SYSTEM. ALL OF WRN PNHDL REPORTING -SN AS OF 14Z. NERLY COMPONENT OF WINDS BRINGING CONTINUED WAA. IMPRESSIVE BANDED CONVECTION ACROSS NWRN KS WITH WEDGE OF HEAVY SNOW IMPACTING THE FOOTHILLS AND ADJACENT PLAINS OF CO. I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE HEAVY PRECIP TO OUR SOUTH/SOUTHWEST WHICH WILL MOVE IN THIS EVENING. CURRENT TEMPS IN THE MID 30S IN THE SERN PNHDLE AND SOUTHWEST. LIGHT SNOW AND SNOW ALREADY COVERING THE GROUND IN DEUEL AND GARDEN COUNTY. POSN OF UPPER LOW SEEMS TO AGREE BETTER WITH THE NAM PLACEMENT IN THE WRN OK PNHDL AT 18Z TODAY. THROUGH 12Z MONDAY...THE NAM IS FURTHER SOUTH THAN THE GFS WITH THE H7 LOW. THIS HAS A FURTHER SOUTHEAST PROJECTION OF THE DEFORMATION LOW. THIS WOULD PLACE THE AXIS FROM NEAR HOLYOKE CO THROUGH HYANNIS NEBR. THIS FITS WELL WITH GOING WINTER STORM WATCH COUNTIES (GARDEN...DEUEL...ARTHUR... KEITH...PERKINS AND CHASE). THIS ALSO AGREES WITH PLACEMENT OF H65 THET-E AXIS AND WINDS. QUESTION REMAINS WHEN CHANGEOVER WILL OCCUR AND AMOUNTS OF SNOWFALL THEREAFTER. THE 1540 H85-H7 THCKNS LINE SHOULD SERVE AS A GOOD GAGE BASED ON WHERE SNOW IS OCCURRING THIS MORNING. THE 1540 LINE REMAINS ACROSS GARDEN/DEUEL COUNTY TIL 00Z MON THEN PUSHES EAST QUICKLY AS AXIS OF H7 LOW KICKS EAST. THEREFORE WILL MOVE THE RAIN/SNOW LINE TO THE WRN BORDER OF LINCOLN COUNTY BY 06Z. SHOULD REMAIN ALL RAIN TO THE EAST. WILL ONLY PUSH THE RAIN/SNOW LINE A BIT FURTHER EAST INTO MONDAY MORNING TO A LINE FROM HAYES CENTER TO NORTH PLATTE TO KILGORE. OUTGOING STORM TOTAL SNOW GRIDS WILL HAVE NEAR 7 INCHES GARDEN/DEUEL WHERE A WINTER STORM WARNING WILL BE ISSUED FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON TIL 18Z MONDAY. ADJACENT COUNTIES GRANT...ARTHUR...KEITH...PERKINS AND CHASE HAVE 3 TO 5 INCHES. WINDS WILL BE ANOTHER CONCERN WITH WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH TONIGHT AND 15 TO 25 MPH MONDAY. DEFORMATION ZONE ACROSS THE WRN ZONES SHOULD SEE ADDITION 1-2 INCHES SNOWFALL MONDAY MORNING THEN STILL A RAIN/SNOW MIX INTO THE AFTERNOON. && .LBF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR DEUEL AND GARDEN COUNTY 21Z TODAY UNTIL 18Z MONDAY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR GRANT...ARTHUR...KEITH...PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTIES 21Z TODAY UNTIL 18Z MONDAY. && KAR
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1103 AM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 NEZ004>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069>071-094-102200- ARTHUR NE-BLAINE NE-BOYD NE-BROWN NE-CHASE NE-CUSTER NE-DEUEL NE- EASTERN CHERRY NE-FRONTIER NE-GARDEN NE-GARFIELD NE-GRANT NE- HAYES NE-HOLT NE-HOOKER NE-KEITH NE-KEYA PAHA NE-LINCOLN NE-LOGAN NE- LOUP NE-MCPHERSON NE-PERKINS NE-ROCK NE-SHERIDAN NE-THOMAS NE- WESTERN CHERRY NE-WHEELER NE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AINSWORTH...ARNOLD...ARTHUR...BASSETT... BIG SPRINGS...BREWSTER...BROKEN BOW...BURWELL...CHAPPELL...CURTIS... GORDON...GRANT...HAY SPRINGS...HAYES CENTER...IMPERIAL...MULLEN... NORTH PLATTE...ONEILL...OGALLALA...OSHKOSH...RUSHVILLE...SPENCER... SPRINGVIEW...STAPLETON...TAYLOR...THEDFORD...TRYON AND VALENTINE 1103 AM CDT SUN APR 10 2005 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA FROM TONIGHT TO MONDAY AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA TODAY AS A SECOND WAVE MOVE NORTH OUT OF KANSAS. THE PRIMARY CONCERN HOWEVER WILL BE ACROSS THE WESTERN OUTLOOK AREA WHERE THE RAIN SHOWERS WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SNOW DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS. BY TONIGHT...MAINLY SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA WHERE SEVERAL INCHES OF ACCUMULATION ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY ON MONDAY SNOW WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA...WHILE SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA ON MONDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE AS THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES OUT ONTO THE PLAINS...THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. AT THIS TIME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED...HOWEVER THE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY WILL CONTINUE TO BE MONITORED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT SNOWFALL ACCUMULATION AMOUNTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE. MASEK
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:59 UTC.
2 hail, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a farm house and damaged the phone lines as well as electrical wiring to the well pump.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, April 2005
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5444743, 5444744, 5444745.